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Definition of Chewink
1. Noun. Common towhee of eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Towhee
Group relationships: Genus Pipilo, Pipilo
Definition of Chewink
1. n. An american bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus) of the Finch family, so called from its note; -- called also towhee bunting and ground robin.
Definition of Chewink
1. Noun. A bird, ''Pipilo erythrophthalmus'', the Eastern towhee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chewink
1. a common finch [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chewink
Literary usage of Chewink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"On December 29, 1903, at Ashland, Middlesex, Co., Massachusetts, I had the good
fortune to run across a male chewink (Pipilo ..."
2. The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families by Harriet (Mann) Miller, Olive Thorne Miller (1901)
"The chewink has at the best an exquisite song, though there is a great ...
A bird-lover whom I know found one day a nestling chewink who could not fly much, ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"See chewink. Grass-Widow. A wife who has been separated from her husband; called
also a "widow bewitched." In England, the term grass- widow signifies an ..."
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